EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based global management and production company 75East has signed Lebanese writer-director Nay Tabbara, whose short film Ebb & Flow won the Student Visionary Award at its Tribeca world premiere in June. Inspired by real events and the political instabilities of the early 2000s in…

Robert De Niro Turns Attention To Tribeca Lisbon Robert De Niro has signaled the beginning of Tribeca Lisbon by saying he will approach the new offshoot with the “same spirit” as his 22-year-old U.S. festival. Speaking at a reception in New York yesterday, the double Academy Award-winner said…

Serena Williams thinks Caitlin Clark is handling the WNBA tumult well. Williams spoke to reporters at the Tribeca Festival about her docuseries In the Arena: Serena Williams, which premiered earlier this week. During her session, the New York Post reports she was asked about Clark. "I just love…

There must be something in the air lately because I have been seeing and reviewing a number of really good and intriguing documentaries on iconic showbiz figures. At Cannes I saw new docus on Faye Dunaway (Faye), Elizabeth Taylor (Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost T…

Elizabeth Banks has one of her best roles to date in A Mistake, the New Zealand-set medical drama that had its world premiere Friday night at the Tribeca Festival. It might be easy to forget that Banks is one of the best actors out there, especially…

EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has taken world sales rights on Tribeca competition titles Adult Best Friends and Rent Free.  Adult Best Friends is the first feature from the filmmaking team of Delaney Buffett (director/co-writer/star) and Katie Corwin (co-writer/star). The film follows a woman (Corwin) as…

EXCLUSIVE: Passion Pictures has snapped up the development exec behind its buzzy Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story feature with a view to discovering the next generation of British female documentary directors. Emily Jeal takes on the newly-created role of Head of Feature Documentaries. Her…

EXCLUSIVE: LA outfit Black Box Management has launched a content sales division at Tribeca and unveiled its first project. Black Box is launching sales on Jean-Cosme Delaloye’s Desire: The Carl Craig Story at the New York fest this week. The movie from Bord Cadre Films and Sovereign Films is the…

The 2024 Tribeca Festival has added 11 new feature films to its lineup — including a Hannah Einbinder standup special from Max — and has also set a world premiere of Michael Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place: Day One on June 26 in partnership with Paramount Pictures and Imax just ahead of the film’s theatrical…

The Tribeca Festival has unveiled its reunions, retrospectives and talks series for the 23rd edition unspooling in June including a Storyteller Series with Judd Apatow, Andy Cohen, Kieran Culkin, Kerry Washington, Laverne Cox, Jon Batiste, and Michael Stipe. The Directors Series features Gus Van Sant…

The 2024 Tribeca Festival, which unveiled its film slate Wednesday, is out with its television lineup of world premieres of new and returning programs from networks and streamers. The 23rd edition, which unspool June 5-16, features 11 series premieres and two first looks at returning classics. World…

EXCLUSIVE: L.A. and Cairo-based production company Ambient Light Films has unveiled the trailer for Lebanese director Mira Shaib's drama Arzé, which was announced as part of the Tribeca Film Festival selection on Wednesday. The Beirut-set drama stars Lebanese actress Diamand Abou Abboud (The Insult, I…